If gold rust, what then will iron do? For if a priest be foul in whom we trust/ No wonder that a common man should rust.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERIf love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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People can die of mere imagination.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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Yet do not miss the moral, my good men. For Saint Paul says that all that’s written well Is written down some useful truth to tell. Then take the wheat and let the chaff lie still.
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My house is small, but you are learned men And by your arguments can make a place Twenty foot broad as infinite as space.
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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Love will not be constrain’d by mastery. When mast’ry comes, the god of love anon Beateth his wings, and, farewell, he is gone. Love is a thing as any spirit free.
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